Clothesline support



April 3, 1934. E. s. BECKER 1,953,210

CLOTHESLINE SUPPORT Filed Sept. 27, 1952 Invenlor Earl 6: fizz /5187 gmwfiza Patented Apr. 3, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CLOTHESLINE SUPPORT Earl Stewart Becker, Schenectady, N. Y.

Application September 27, 1932, Serial No. 635,088

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to an attachment for clothes line and has particular reference to a device for supporting the lower lead of an endless clothes line from the upper lead thereof when the clothes are in place, whereby to prevent undue sagging of the lower lead from the weight of the clothes.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this nature which is exceedingly simple in its construction, inexpensive to manufacture, easy to attach to and detach from the clothes line, thoroughly efficient and reliable in use and otherwise well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

With the above and numerous other objects in View as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device em bodying the features of my invention.

Figure 2 is an edge view thereof, and

Figure 3 is another side elevation similar to that shown in Figure l but indicating in dotted lines the leads of the clothes line in place.

Referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that this device is formed from a single strand of wire or similar material to provide a straight elongated intermediate portion 5 terminating in coils 6. The coils 6, it will be noted are disposed on opposite sides of the intermediate portion 5 when viewed in Figure 3 yet extend from the same side thereof when viewed in Figure 2. The axis of the coils are in parallelism with one another and the intermediate portion 5 extends tangentially in respect to the coils 6. The device is reversible, that is it does not make any difference which coil is engaged with the upper lead or the lower lead.

The clothes line leads are disposed as shown in Figure 1 to engage properly with the coils so as to be disposed in the position indicated in dotted lines in Figure 3 and also in Figure 2.

It is thought that the construction, operation, utility and advantages of this invention will now be quite apparent to those skilled in this art without a more detail description thereof.

It is apparent that changes in the details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

Means for supporting the lower lead of an endless clothes line from the upper lead thereof and in the same vertical plane as the upper lead, comprising a member formed of a single piece of wire, having a diagonally arranged straight part and a helical coil at each end thereof, the axis of one coil being arranged to one side of the straight portion and the axis of the other coil at the opposite side thereof and the convolutions of the two coils extending in the same direction from said straight portion, with said convolutions of each coil spaced apart whereby a number of bight porticns are formed by each coil, spaced apart to engage different portions of a lead of the line, the spaces between said bight portions being larger than the diameter of the line.

EARL STEWART BECKER. 

